On 11/18/2013 10:11 AM, Nathan Larson wrote: > Do we have any way of knowing that Yong-Gang Wang of Google is correct > about this? I sent a message to this > individual<https://plus.google.com/105349418663822362024/about>(hopefully > it's the same guy) asking for more information. It seems like a > pretty major departure from past Google policy/practice.
I think it is highly likely that he is correct about this. Professional spammers will likely monitor the effect of their campaigns closely, so would know about this first. I would expect less wiki spam if rel=nofollow was actually honored. Especially hidden (unclickable) links don't have much value apart from page rank. Gabriel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
